Path to an Easier Transition

The transition from high school to college can be very difficult. The pressure is now on you. There is no more following the crowd or waiting until the period before to study for your test. When I first entered Mercy …

By Katarina Felix
Katarina Felix Marketing Chair
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How Can Career and Professional Development Help You?

How can Career and Professional Development help you during your time at Mercy University? We asked four of our students to explain how they took advantage of the opportunities Career and Professional Development has provided them with to explore and …

By Stephen Caldwell
Stephen Caldwell Media & Communications Chair
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Soft Skills: what are they and do they matter in job search…..?

You have probably heard at one of our Career Academy workshops that hard skills are easy to quantify, or to measure —like a certain degree or fluency in a foreign language, for example.  Soft skills are much harder to assess …

By Marguerite Busetti
Marguerite Busetti Associate Director of Career and Professional Development, Dobbs Ferry Campus
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NATIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONALS DAY- April 24

NATIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONALS’ DAY

National Administrative Professionals’ Day, also known as Secretaries Day or Admin Day,  is observed on the Wednesday of the last full week in April of each year.  It is a day to recognize the work of …

By Shannon Hargrove
Shannon Hargrove Director, Career Education & Operations
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How to Ace an Interview!


                       Looking for the secret formula to ace an interview? 

I wish I had the answer for you. Well…the only way to rock an interview is by practicing. Career and Professional Development provides all students with the ability to practice endlessly. …

By Meghan Mickiewicz
Meghan Mickiewicz President
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The Secret is Out Part 6: What Employers Look for – Career Management

This is part of a series of blogs: #6 of 8! If you missed the first ones, you can read them here.

Onto the next secret of what employers are looking: Career Management. According to NACE, it’s the ability to …

By Mariana Ayerbe
Mariana Ayerbe Deputy Director, Career Education
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Caring Can Have a Big Payoff

With summer just around the corner and the end of the semester approaching quickly, consider using your summer to care for your community. Ways you can care for your community include finding an organization in which you can connect with. …

By Joi Sampson
Joi Sampson Associate Director of Career and Professional Development
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Spring Marketing Alumni Panel

The Media, Marketing and Communications Board in partnership with the Marketing Club is happy to present The Spring Alumni Panel on April 17th at 6 pm. We will have alumni from a variety of companies in different areas of business …

By Gabriella Ramdass
Gabriella Ramdass
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JPMorgan Chase Office Tour | March 22

“It is the people and the culture that drew me to JPMorgan Chase. It is important for me to work at a company, and with a group of people, that value integrity and a commitment to constantly learning” Meghan Mickiewicz, …

By Gina Villazhinay
Gina Villazhinay Assistant Director of Career and Professional Development
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Find Your Path: Women’s Panel

As young adults, we enter the college scene in hopes of obtaining a degree which will ultimately help us find our way in the job market, right? So how do we know which path is the right one? As a …

By Ashley Dieudonne
Ashley Dieudonne Event Chair
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